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2171. Pop-ups

Written on Thursday 12 December 2002 at 23:39 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

As you might have noticed, The Sims Zone is running out of money. We didn't put up the donations section for nothing last weekend... we need about £300 ($450) before the end of April next year. We hope you can help us out with that, as we don't want to become a pay site either. To get a bit of extra money from advertising (which isn't a lot at the moment), we've added pop-ups to our site. They will only pop up if you're not logged in as member. If you're not a member, then there's a chance that you will get to see a pop up. This depends on ValueClick at that moment, they have to have ads available at the time. If you feel like helping us out, please donate! You will get a few extra (special) files from us as reward. Besides that, if we get more money than we need, you will also support the RGA. Read all about it in the donations section. Thank you.

2172. SimDay: More chats...

Written on Thursday 12 December 2002 at 19:40 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

This week in SimDay: a new TSO and SimCity 4 chat, a patch for The Sims Deluxe and a new The Sims PS2 website. The patch and website info can be read in the "Read more" link, but first here is all the chat info. First of all, tonight at 11pm (British time, midnight GMT or 3pm Pacific) there will be a chat of SimCity 4. Guest of honour is Joseph, designer of that game, who will be talking about the rewards system. Tomorrow there's another TSO chat where you can talk about the development team. That event will be held at 2am British time (which is 3 in the morning in Europe, 6pm PST). A chat of last week's chat is available at the TSO site. As it's available only in the community events section of the bug boards, I cannot read the chat as I cannot join the play test either. Remember that we have a TSO interview too! You can still submit your questions to us so your questions get answered. Read More!

2173. New Poll

Written on Thursday 12 December 2002 at 19:14 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Last night a new poll was added again. We are wondering what you have done to your Newbies and Goths, you know, the two families in the original game that everybody knows. Let us know how your Newbies and Goths ended up by voting on the right or at this page. In our last poll ("How will you pay for The Sims Online?") over 50% voted they will not be buying the game: 30 of 57 people chose that. 3 other options ("Game time cards", "Don't know yet" and "I will check TSO out first with the play time that comes with the game, then decide about it") all got 8 votes each (14.04%). The people who will pay with their credit card are in the minority: just 3 people picked that, which is just 5.26%.

2174. Server is back! New feature up!

Written on Sunday 8 December 2002 at 23:55 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The moment you've all been waiting for (well, we were anyway) is here! The server is back up which means we can properly add files for your enjoyment again. But, we've also added something new, which is necessary for us. As I've explained more often, hosting a site costs money. At the moment, the costs are quite high for us and unfortunately we cannot afford it anymore at the moment. That's why we need your help! You can send us an amount of money (you decide how much) using the Donate button on the left (or by following this link). With the donations, we hope to cover all our costs. But, that's not where we stop! When we're able to pay all our bills, we will send the remainder of what we got to a charity. For the next few months we've selected the RGA. For more details about that, go to the donations page.

As we don't want you to leave empty-handed, we give you some value for your money too. Every month, a new bunch of special files will be added to this site. When you donate, you will get an email with a username and password, which you need to download these files. The files are listed in the donations file group, so you can get a preview of the files before you donate. You can also wait a month to get the files for free then, but then you also don't help us... which might mean we have to close down eventually! So:

2175. TSO Interview: Send us your questions!

Written on Sunday 8 December 2002 at 12:21 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Some good news after all the server trouble: we have been invited to have an interview about The Sims Online with the TSO development/producers team. This means an interview with them will be seen here sooner or later. However, we know you probably have some questions you want to ask about The Sims Online. Now here's that opportunity! You can submit your questions to us by either e-mailing me or otherwise by making comments to this news post (registered TSZ members only!). We will select the best questions and add some of our own. These will then be in the interview. There is no guarantee that your question will be answered, but it's worth a try. Everybody is allowed to submit one or more questions, so send them in! You can submit questions until next week midnight between Sunday and Monday (so until Monday 16 December, midnight). We're waiting for your questions...

2176. Server Trouble Update Again

Written on Saturday 7 December 2002 at 18:57 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Our .com server is back again for now, and so downloading has been re-enabled. Unfortunately there are still some problems with uploading files, so the new feature will have to wait a day or so. This problem was caused by the transferring of files, which made the directories on the server inaccessible for us (for writing). This will be fixed asap, which may result in another bit of downtime of a few hours. We are tired of the problems too, and hope everything's working properly again tomorrow or monday.

2177. The Sims Online Shipping Confirmed [Update]

Written on Saturday 7 December 2002 at 17:31 by Steve - 3 comments.

The date for The Sims Online being shipped has been confirmed as the 17th December (providing there are no manufacturing problems). This will mean you will be able to purchase The Sims Online very soon!

If you want you can still become a play tester for The Sims Online by visiting The Sims Online Site. Or you can go direct to the order site at: https://secure.dotcomdist.com/maxemail.htm. Shipping is free if you live in the US or Canada, if you live outside the US or Canada shipping is $10. Please note that in certain countries you will not be able to sign up for the play test.

Update 8 December, 0:00 by ChEeTaH: This means The Sims Online has gone gold, i.e. production (pressing cds and manuals, boxing the packages etc) has started. As TheSimsResource says: "The Sims Online has been approved for production": the 'master cd' is ready and went to the companies for pressing. Note that this is only for the American edition (USA, Canada). Exact European release dates are unknown but it probably will be the first quarter of 2003.

2178. SimDay Update: another chat

Written on Saturday 7 December 2002 at 00:30 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The SimDay news got updated a bit late again, with the news that there will be a SimCity 4 chat again next thursday (12 December) at 3pm PST (11pm GMT, midnight in Europe). The chat will be one where you can ask your questions to MaxisJoseph, designer of the SimCity 4 team. Go to chat here at that time to submit your questions. The same goes for the TSO chat later tonight (it's just a few hours away!). Have fun chatting!

2179. SimDay: TSO Chat tomorrow

Written on Thursday 5 December 2002 at 22:03 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Tomorrow a chat with the TSO team will be hosted at the the official site. It will be held at 6pm PST, which is is 2am in Great Britain or 3am in the morning in Europe. It says the "TSO team" but it's probably just a part of it, as the whole team is bigger than 100 people. A transcript will be available sooner or later for those who miss it, for instance because it's too early in the morning. Besides that, there are a few new skins available from SSX Snowboarding. To download them, click this link. Make sure you are logged in at the official site. The file is 220kb big. That's all again for this week, another SimDay next week.

2180. Poll #50 is up!

Written on Thursday 5 December 2002 at 01:32 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Yes it's here. We've reached our 50th poll at this site. We've done them weekly, with exceptions when we had just launched and weren't so popular yet, and one other time in May during the server move. Poll 50 is about The Sims Online: if you're going to get it, how will you pay to get play time? Will you pay with your credit card ($10 monthly), or by using the game time cards ($30 for 90 days, available in stores)? Vote on the right, or on this page. As for poll 49: it's obvious most people run The Sims in a 1024x768 resolution: 69 of 112 people (61.60%!) said they use that screen resolution, of which 29 (25.89% of the total) wished it could be even higher. 'Just' 33 people (29.46%) use the 800x600 resolution, and 4 people (3.57%) didn't know what it was about. In total, 6 people (5.36%) said they don't play the game anymore. For a nice overview of the results, and the results of all 49 previous polls, visit the archive.